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I posted this comment to another article already but, it’s appropriate to this one too.
From the musical South Pacific:
You’ve got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught
From year to year,
It’s got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff’rent shade,
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You’ve got to be carefully taught!

Quite true. I wonder, Alice, do you see what you were taught? Did you see how some of the posters on this board think about Muslims and Liberals? There isn't much of a difference between them and the boy.

[7] November 27, 2014 at 5:59pm

Need to add two more categories: working Black Friday or not working Black Friday. I will be working otherwise I would sleep in. The deals aren’t that good, you can get better deals before Christmas or even earlier this week before Thanksgiving. Sales started on Monday for you early bird shoppers. Plus with online who needs to leave the house anymore.

good points.
Never done the black friday bit. The idea of trying to get the one or two good deals in a store that sell out in the first few minutes just doesn't sound good.
When I worked in a mall restaurant, it was one of two days a year where almost the entire staff worked. It was nuts, but a good day to work. A lot of money came in and the fast pace of work made it go by quickly.

November 27, 2014 at 7:57pm

SillyGoose responded:

I went once. Never again! Unless you wait in the actual line to get in (for hours), and get a big ticket item on huge sale, I really don't think the aggravation is worth it. It's like hours of waiting in huge lines to save a few dollars. Like you said, you can get just as good, if not better deals some other day. I HAVE to go to a store tomorrow and I'm dreading the thought.

My mother told me about the allegations against Woody Allen when I was old enough to understand we have always boycotted his movies in this house. But I went to an Art School where he was celebrated so I have seen some of his work. So not only is he a monster but his movies are awful and he is the worst one in them.
I think it is terrible that guys like him and Polanski are embraced and celebrated in the film industry, But not unsurprising.

Thanks Blaze,
“To all those who still are willing to brave the crowds or who will be working retail, good luck.”
My shift starts at 11:30 pm tonight, opening. I’m going to need all the luck and caffeine to get me through to mid morning.

It depends on the company most places I’ve worked at you don’t really get a choice. If they are nice you can at least request what part of the day you start but you still have to work the holidays. After Halloween retail enters a blackout period for the employees, they cannot request time off. Employees may make personal request for time off to the manager but it is difficult and usually doesn’t end up happening. It sucks, and makes you resent the holidays. But we all got to work, so please shoppers remember we are here for you. Show some patients and holiday spirit and it will be returned.

Awe poor kitty just needs a home. I’d take him if he’s like the cat in the video with the kid. If he is feral they will probably just fix him and dump him back in the neighborhood like they do here in California. So much for the Humane Society.

Okay, lets think about this. now every culture has a great flood story which would wipe out most dinosaurs if they were still around. The only dinoaurs that could survive that would be flying ones. What do humans stories of dragons have in common with dinosaurs, they lay eggs, they fly ( the ones that survived the flood.), they are meat eaters. Now the fire breathing part is up for debate still.
The other half of the old stories is that humans sought them out to kill or to tame. Now they could have hunted them into extinction, much like man nearly did with the buffalo, and many other animals. Why is this theory any crazier then Darwin’s theory. they are just theories, people.

In science, a "theory" isn't . . . just a hunch/guess. A theory is the explanation given to a tested and verified hypothesis that becomes a fact. There is a theory of gravity is an example. Gravity is testable. The theory explains the test results.
Creation isn't [nor can it be] "a theory". It cannot be tested or verified. It is a belief only.

August 12, 2013 at 10:12am

The-Right-Rider responded:

Daevonreye:
A theory doesn't always lead to a fact however. Hawking had a blackhole theory that went intellectually bankrupt under the light of new evidence and scientifically established facts.
Evolution is STILL a theory, meaning its NOT a fact, and until it is (IF it ever is) dont try to pass it of as if it was, otherwise you will be no better than the fundamentalist fanatics you choose to criticize.

August 12, 2013 at 10:38am

DeavonReye responded:

I'm not passing if off as if it was. . . . those who work IN that field are. People who do this everyday. Geneticists, biologists, etc . . . . until your beliefs can be taken seriously, your "scientists" must provide their findings for peer review. At the same time, they must submit their credible evidence for peer review that will show why the vast majority of scientists "are getting it all wrong".
The ball is at the feet of those like Ken Ham who gets his fortune off of selling his lectures to religious people. Those who are actually IN the fields of study where actual data can be found find people like Ken Ham to be laughable.
Look up youtube videos from Potholer54debunks, Underlings, TheLivingDinosaur.

August 12, 2013 at 10:42am

bonesiii responded:

Alice -- yes, the vast majority of the dinosaurs (and flying and swimming dragons which note are not actually called "dinosaurs" technically) would have died out, but don't forget that there would be representatives of each major rootkind of them on the Ark. This includes land and flying. And swimming ones could have survived for a while in the water (they did not need to go on the Ark to survive the Flood per se).
Re: fire-breathing -- well, many creationists have pointed out (you may know this but I raise this for others to see) that many of the flying ones have hollow crests that possibly could have contained organs similar to the bombardier beetle. There's also a type of giant crocodile that has something like this in its nose (CMI has proposed this as the Leviathan, rather than a dinosaur). And some of the duckbills I think. So it does seem there is credence to "fire"-spitting dragons, including especially flying ones.
Of course, the images of alleged flying dragons almost certainly are mixing details from legends of sauropods with pterosaurs, since they will show a sauropod like form with tiny wings sticking out the back (yet four legs) which is nonsense of course. But this would be normal with corruption due to word-of-mouth retellings etc. in times when caution was not usually used for such stories.

August 12, 2013 at 10:45am

DeavonReye responded:

Correction: for theists, I would not recommend going to TheLivingDinosaur, actually. His videos are usually laden with a lot of cursing and crass language. But there are those out there who give a good example of what is being accomplished in the scientific arena.

August 12, 2013 at 10:45am

bonesiii responded:

And I agree humans probably played a large role in their extinction (as we often did with "impressive kill" type animals or have risked doing even nowadays). There would also be environmental problems much later after the Flood.
Deavon, the stock answer to that stock claim is that evolutionists contradict themselves on this point by claiming that creation can't be tested, but then proceed to claim it HAS been tested and disproven. It can't work both ways. If anything is untestable, surely it is the past in general, which would make your claim equally as true for evolution/OEC/etc. The truth is that many parts of both worldviews CAN be tested (and ours hold up while evolution's fail), but some things (namely past events) really aren't testable (until we invent time machines :P).
The "fortune" tack fails equally for evolutionists, especially since in order to get grant money from a public that already buys into their worldview and powerful individuals who do, you have to give lip service to believing it at every opportunity (indeed, especially in the places where your findings logically say the opposite, as if to assure your moneymasters you don't actually doubt). AiG and most other creationist organizations actually release thousands of resources for free, including books, while by contrast popular atheists like Dawkins refuse to offer free versions of any of their books (at least as of my last check this year).

August 12, 2013 at 12:23pm

dnewton responded:

I think it is more probable that they preyed on their eggs. The sex of an alligator is decided by the temperature that they experience while incubating. If you uncover the eggs you change the distribution of male and females. This could be tougher on future populations than randomly eating the eggs or the young. Alligators and some reptiles continue to grow with increasing age. Why couldn't dragons just be very old reptiles?

August 12, 2013 at 2:43pm

Lucretius responded:

I think dinosaurs were so afraid of humans that it forced them to jump in the water and they couldn't swim very well.
Same amount evidence for that as the theories you two gave. Luckily the scientific method doesn't work based on hunches people have. You can have a hunch but then you have to show some evidence for it to be taken seriously.

July 16, 2013 at 12:44pm

That’s terrible that poor guy. I sadly live in CA not Oakland but close enough to drive there. I hope the resturant stays open and prayers go out to that waiter too. When things calm down there and providing that the resturant is still there. I will go to that resturant in support, and order their carmel pudding with sea salt and whipped cream for dessert.

I know I can count on liberal outlets to have a one-sided view, too. Maybe if everyone took a moment and tried to see the situation from both sides they’d find compassion for both sides and uderstanding. It was a tragedy. A young man is dead and another man has to live with having killed him.
But no, the media and politicians are doing everythng they can to divide us. They had a trial even though they didn’t have enough evidence to get a conviction. In the hopes of preventing these protest, I’d call this an epic fail. This lynch mob is blind with anger and refuse to see the evidence and the left is using it No crisis goes to waste.

It’s really common for Hollywood to get adults to play teens. the reason for it is so they can get around having to have tutors for them on set, added expense. And they can only work so many hours as a minor which means shorter days, yes. But the completion of each episode would take longer, which means more money.

You need to go back to her past speeches - has nothing to do with you liking her husband or not. she is just like him. There is a difference between being disrespectful and being honest.

July 4, 2013 at 6:35pm

Weddings seem to bring the worst out in people anymore, how sad. It’s all about how much is spent on the ring, dress, food, etc… It’s no longer important that they what to pledge their love to eachother before God and their loved ones. We need to make weddings less about expense and things and more about love. Love of God, husband and wife, family, and friends. That is more valuable and memorable then things.

@ ALICE, agreed 100% these selfish people have seen too many episodes of "platinum weddings"

July 5, 2013 at 1:13am

everynii responded:

Weddings don't kill manners, they just magnify what is already there.

July 3, 2013 at 2:15pm

Common sense is lost on most liberals. The lemmings you see are being told lies, that they are just eating up. Their leadership is telling them that this legislation will get rid of all abortion. And instead of reading it for themselves these lazy and or gullible people are buying the lies.

That saying is very appropriate for these insane times. Our world is turning upside down, right is wrong, wrong is right. Where is the American peoples line in the sand? We need to start standing up together non-violantly, of course. We most not be the first to act with violence let them do that and bring about their own demise.

That’s amazing, I wish my parents had done that for me. I can swim now but it took years to get over that fear of water. When i have kids I will be taking them to infant swim classes. Beat the fear and instill confidence.

The program was originally called "Water Babies" and thankfully my baby graduated with flying colors--- It came to real LIFE when he fell in ---- POPPED up, flipped on his back and floated until I grabbed him 15 seconds later. WOW--thank GOD!